Definition of Foundational Public Health Services

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1 Definition of Foundational Public Health Services FOUNDATIONAL CAPABILITIES A. Assessment (Surveillance and Epidemiology). The foundational definition of this capability includes: 1. Ability to collect sufficient statewide data to develop and maintain electronic information systems to guide public health planning and decision making at the state and local level. Foundational data includes Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS), Healthy Youth Survey (HYS), and vital statistics and foundational information systems include PHIMS, PHRED, CHARS, and CHAT. (state function only) 2. Ability to access, analyze, and use data from a minimum of eight specific information sources, including (1) U.S. Census data, (2) vital statistics, (3) notifiable condition data, (4) certain clinical administrative data sets including hospital discharge, (5) BRFSS, (6) HYS, (7) basic community and environmental health indicators, and (8) local and state chart of accounts. 3. Ability to prioritize and respond to data requests and to translate data into information and reports that are valid, statistically accurate, and readable to by the intended audiences. 4. Ability to conduct a basic community and statewide health assessment and identify health priorities arising from that assessment, including analysis of health disparities. B. Emergency Preparedness (All Hazards). The foundational definition of this capability includes: 1. Ability to develop and rehearse response strategies and plans, in accordance with national and state guidelines, to address natural or manmade disasters and emergencies, including special protection of vulnerable populations. 2. Ability to lead the Emergency Support Function 8 Public Health & Medical for the county, region, jurisdiction, and state. 3. Ability to activate the emergency response personnel in the event of a public health crisis; coordinate with federal, state, and county emergency managers, and other first responders; and operate within, and as necessary lead, the incident management system. 4. Promote community preparedness by communicating with the public in advance of an emergency, about steps that can be taken before, during, or after a disaster. C. Communication. The foundational definition of this capability includes: 1. Ability to maintain ongoing relations with local and statewide media, including the abilityies to write a press release, conduct a press conference, and use electronic communication tools to interact with the media. 2. Ability to develop and implement a communication strategy, in accordance with Public Health Accreditation Board Standards, to increase visibility of a specific public health issue and communicate risk. This includes the ability to provide information on health risks, healthy behaviors, and disease prevention in culturally and linguistically appropriate formats for the various communities served, including use of electronic communication tools. 1 FINAL DRAFT OCTOBER 2014

2 D. Policy Development and Support. The foundational definition of this capability includes: 1. Ability to develop basic public health policy recommendations that are evidence-based, or innovative or promising with evaluation plans, and legally feasible. 2. Ability to work with partners and policy makers to enact policies that are evidence-based and that address the social determinants of health. 3. Ability to utilize cost benefit information to develop an efficient and cost-effective action plan to respond to the priorities identified in a community and/or statewide health assessment, including identification of best and emerging practices, and those that respond to health inequities. E. Community Partnership Development. The foundational definition of this capability includes: 1. Ability to create and maintain relations with important partners, including health-related national, statewide, and communitybased organizations; community groups or organizations representing populations experiencing health disparities; key private businesses and health care organizations; and key federal, tribal, state, and local government agencies and leaders. 2. Ability to strategically select and articulate governmental public health roles in programmatic and policy activities and coordinate with these partners. F. Business Competencies. The foundational definition of this capability includes: 1. Leadership. Ability to lead internal and external stakeholders to consensus and action planning (adaptive leadership) and to serve as the public face of governmental public health in the community. 2. Accountability and Quality Assurance Services. Ability to uphold business standards and accountability in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and policies and to assure compliance with national and Public Health Accreditation Board Standards. 3. Quality Improvement. Ability to continuously improve processes, including plan-do-study-act cycles. 4. Information Technology Services. Ability to maintain and access electronic health information to support the public health agency s operations and analyze health data. Ability to support, maintain, and use communication technology. 5. Human Resources Services. Ability to develop and maintain a competent workforce, including recruitment, retention, and succession planning functions; training; and performance review and accountability. 6. Fiscal Management, Contract, and Procurement Services. Ability to comply with federal, state, and local standards and policies. 7. Facilities and Operations. Ability to procure, maintain, and manage safe facilities and efficient operations. 8. Legal Services and Analysis. Ability to access and appropriately use legal services in planning and implementing public health initiatives. FOUNDATIONAL PROGRAMS G. Communicable Disease Control. The foundational definition of this program includes: 1. Provide timely, statewide, and locally relevant and accurate information to the state and community on communicable diseases and their control, including strategies to increase local immunization rates. 2 FINAL DRAFT OCTOBER 2014

3 2. Identify statewide and local communicable disease control community assets, develop and implement a prioritized communicable disease control plan addressing important communicable diseases such as influenza and hepatitis, and advocate and seek funding for high priority policy and other communicable disease control initiatives. 3. Ability to receive laboratory reports and other identifiable data;, conduct disease investigations, including contact notification;, and recognize, identify, and respond to communicable disease outbreaks for notifiable conditions in accordance with national, state, and local mandates and guidelines. 4. Assure the availability of partner notification services for newly diagnosed cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, and HIV and Hepatitis B and C, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines. 5. Assure the appropriate treatment of individuals who have active tuberculosis, including the provision of directly-observed therapy according to CDC guidelines. 6. Assure availability of public health laboratory services for disease investigations and response, and reference and confirmatory testing related to communicable diseases. 7. Coordinate and integrate other categorically-funded communicable disease control programs and services. H. Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention. The foundational definition of this program includes: 1. Provide timely, statewide, and locally relevant and accurate information to the state and community on chronic disease prevention (including mental health illness and chemical dependency) and injury control 2. Identify statewide and local chronic disease (including mental illness and chemical dependency) and injury prevention community assets, develop and implement a prioritized prevention plan, and advocate and seek funding for high priority policy initiatives. 3. Reduce statewide and community rates of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use through programs that conform to best practices and federal, state, and local laws. standards set by Washington laws and CDC s Office on Smoking and Health, including activities to reduce youth initiation, increase cessation, and reduce secondhand smoke exposure. Contribute to a reduction in statewide and community rates of alcohol and other drug use by working with partners at the state and local level to identify (1) evidence-based population-based interventions or (2) innovative/promising population-based interventions with valid evaluation studies; and collaborate with partners in generating funding for these interventions. 4. Work actively with statewide and community partners to increase statewide and community rates of healthy eating and active living through a prioritized program of best and emerging practices aligned with national and state guidelines for healthy eating and active living. 5. Coordinate and integrate other categorically-funded chronic disease and injury prevention programs and services I. Environmental Public Health. The foundational definition of this program includes: 1. Provide timely, statewide, and locally relevant and accurate information to the state and community on environmental public health issues and health impacts from common environmental or toxic exposures. 2. Identify statewide and local community environmental public health assets and partners, and develop and implement a prioritized prevention plan to protect the public s health by preventing and reducing exposures to health hazards in the environment. 3. Conduct mandated environmental public health laboratory testing, inspections, and oversight to protect food, water recreation, drinking water, and liquid and solid waste streams in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and regulations. 3 FINAL DRAFT OCTOBER 2014

4 4. Identify and address priority notifiable zoonotic (e.g. birds, insects, rodents) conditions, air-borne conditions, and other public health threats related to environmental hazards. 5. Protect workers the population and the public from unnecessary radiation exposure in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and regulations. (state function only) 6. Participate in broad land use planning and sustainable development to encourage decisions that promote positive public health outcomes (e.g. consideration of housing, urban development, recreational facilities, and transportation). 7. Coordinate and integrate other categorically-funded environmental public health programs and services. J. Maternal/Child/Family Health. The foundational definition of this program includes: 1. Provide timely, statewide, and locally relevant and accurate information to the state and community on emerging and on-going maternal child health trends, taking into account the importantce of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and health disparities. 2. Assure mandated newborn screening done by the state public health lab to test every infant born in Washington to detect and prevent the developmental impairments and life-threatening illnesses associated with congenital disorders that are specified by the State Board of Health. (state function only) 3. Identify, disseminate, and promote emerging and evidence-based information about early interventions in the prenatal and early childhood period that optimize lifelong health and social-emotional development. 4. Identify local maternal and child health community assets;, develop a prioritized prevention plan using life course expertise and an understanding of health disparities, develop a prioritized prevention plan;, and advocate and seek funding for high priority policy initiatives. 5. Coordinate and integrate other categorically funded maternal, child, and family health programs and services. K. Access/Linkage with Clinical, Oral, and Behavioral Health Care Services. The foundational definition of this program includes: 1. Provide timely, statewide, and locally relevant and accurate information to the state and community on the clinical, oral, and behavioral (including mental health illness and chemical dependency) health care system. 2. In concert with national, and statewide groups and local providers of health care providers and groups, identify health care assets, develop and implement prioritized plans for increasing access to health homes and quality health care, and advocate and seek funding for high priority policy initiatives. 3. In concert with national, statewide, and local health care providers and groups, identify health care assets; develop and implement prioritized plans for assuring access to specific clinical services of public health importance such as family planning, key services for pregnant women and their infants (i.e. maternity support, WIC), and STD and HIV testing and treatment; and advocate and seek funding for high priority policy initiatives. 4. Improve patient safety through inspection and licensing of health care facilities and licensing, monitoring, and discipline of health care providers. (state function only) 5. Provide Engage in local and state-level clinical, oral, and behavioral (mental health and chemical dependency) health system planning. 6. Coordinate and integrate other categorically-funded clinical health care programs and services. L. Vital Records. The foundational definition of this program includes: 4 FINAL DRAFT OCTOBER 2014

5 1. In compliance with state law and in concert with national, state, and local groups, assure a system of vital records. (state function only) 2. Provide certified birth and death certificates in compliance with state law and rule. 5 FINAL DRAFT OCTOBER 2014

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